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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F165095

Preserved specimen of Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885) | Ovalbone Cuttlefish
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F165095
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F165095
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry|dried
Identified by Dr Mandy Reid - Australian Museum (AM)  
Collector C Plant
Sex Unknown
Individual count 2
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 2012-12-03
Supplied as 03/12/2012

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1996, Month: 4, Day:
Supplied as year:1996  month:4 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Sepiida | Sepiidae
Scientific name Acanthosepion ellipticum
Supplied scientific name "Sepia elliptica Hoyle, 1885"
Identified to rank species
Common name Ovalbone Cuttlefish
Supplied common name "Cuttlefish"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Acanthosepion
Supplied as "Sepia"
Species Acanthosepion ellipticum
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Hoyle, 1885)
Supplied as Hoyle, 1885
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Pearl Bay
Latitude -22.43
Supplied as: "-22.43"
Longitude 150.73
Supplied as: "150.73"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Pearl Bay
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Label
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Keppel Islands & Capricorn Bunker Reefs, Souther GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Shoalwater Bay Training Area Overview C
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) Central Mackay Coast
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) Manifold
    NRM Regions 2010 Fitzroy
    NRM Regions 2017 Fitzroy
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Fitzroy
    RAMSAR wetland regions Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area (Shoalwater Bay Training Area, in part - Corio Bay)
    Ramsar Wetlands of Australia 2024 Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area (Shoalwater Bay Training Area, in part - Corio Bay)
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Fitzroy
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Central Mackay Coast
    IBRA 7 Regions Central Mackay Coast
    IBRA 7 Subregions Manifold
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Southern and Western Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Electorates March 2025 Capricornia
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Livingstone - Pt B
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 LIVINGSTONE SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) KEPPEL
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Forests of Australia 2018B Rainforest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Rainforests and Vine Thickets
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Tropical or sub-tropical rainforest

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1165.0 frequency
    Species Richness 315.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1236.3334 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 160.33333 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 4.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 108.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 57.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 490.33334 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 47.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 534.6667 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.533333 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 22.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 21.933332 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 11.733334 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 17.066668 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.1 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 19.533333 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.44 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.19
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 29.966667 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 25.933332 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 25.466667 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.7366667
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0